About Jumuisha Initiative

More about Jumuisha

Jumuisha Initiative is a grassroot youth organization working in rural Makueni, Kenya. Our core goal is to promote the inclusion of all in socio-economic development. Since 2016, we have worked within Makueni, Kajiado, Kitui and Taita Taveta to promote social change and social responsibility among youth and women. Our beneficiaries are able to represent their communities in socio economic development as they learn and earnest opportunities with courage and skill.

Why Our Work

The core reason we started the organization was to provide support to youth and students in academic and social change. Each of us had people we looked up to while growing up. We believe that, no matter the dimension of growth, everyone needs a mentor.

Over time, there was need to extend help in more thematic areas around education, decent livelihood and climate action and we stepped up to provide support to the communities. As we count our blessings, we count the 21,000 beneficiaries of our programs and initiatives.

Jumuisha Academy

This unit is our knowledge hub. It houses learning and life skills for a better future for youth and women. Our courses are tailored to benefit local and informal entities, school going youth, and children;

Leadership skills – Student leaders in high school
Social change for Learners in elementary levels
Digital learning – All interested

Community Development Unit

Working in the grassroots, Jumuisha enhances community development by creating a resilient youth and women in Makueni County. This is achieved through advocacy, networking and building capacities of community members in various social thematic areas. Community development unit seeks to achieve social responsibility.

We believe that the communities are the core structures that house social and economic development. We empower communities to understand their role in governance, building capacities and promote social change.

The unit houses youth programs, community participation in governance and equality, and capacity building for socio-economic resilience.

Environmental Protection Unit

Environmental protection unit drives climate action initiatives at rural Makueni. Its initiatives are focused on enhancing the forest cover in Makueni, and also promoting profitable reuse of glass and plastic waste. This unit aims at contribution to the global campaigns on climate action under the UN Sustainable development goals (SDG 13).

There is so much that locals can do to drive climate action at the local level, and this unit boosts local climate action by all.